On Pogue’s trip, communications broke down during a dive and the submersible was lost for over two hours, he said. With no GPS underwater, the submersible is only guided by text messages from the surface ship. But even if they reach the surface, the door is bolted from the outside – meaning they still risk running out of oxygen unless they are located and freed by rescuers.Ī file photo shows the Titanic shipwreck through the porthole of an OceanGate submersible. Some experts have pointed out it might be near the surface, since submersibles typically are able to shed weight for additional buoyancy. It’s not clear how deep the submersible is. The Titanic wreckage is much deeper, sitting nearly 13,000 feet below sea level. They were trapped for 76 hours before finally being hauled to the surface. The deepest ever underwater rescue was that of Roger Chapman and Roger Mallinson, who were rescued from the Pisces III submersible at depths of 1,575 feet in 1973. That gives authorities until around early Thursday to locate and retrieve the vessel.īut there are a number of challenges, including the remote location, local weather conditions, the state of the submersible – and the extraordinary depth of the ocean in the area they went missing. ET Tuesday, the US Coast Guard said it likely had about 40 hours left. The submersible is designed to carry 96 hours of oxygen for five people on board.īy 1 p.m.
Hamish Harding posted an image of the submersible to his social media accounts on June 17. The Dawoods are a prominent Pakistani business family that runs some of the largest corporations in the country, with a portfolio spanning energy, petrochemicals, fertilizers, IT and food and agriculture. The Pakistani father and son were also confirmed to be on board in a statement by their family. According to his biography on the company’s website, Nargeolet completed 35 dives to the Titanic wreck and supervised the recovery of 5,000 artifacts. He serves as the director of underwater research at RMS Titanic Inc., the company that has exclusive rights to salvage artifacts from the ship. The diver has decades of experience exploring the Titanic. Nargeolet’s family confirmed to CNN affiliate BFMTV that he was aboard the vessel. He had posted on Saturday that Nargeolet was scheduled to be on the submersible with him. Harding is an avid adventurer, having traveled to space on board the Blue Origin flight last year, and to the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean, believed to be the deepest point in the world. Search efforts grow as mission to rescue 5 aboard missing submersible races clock It’s still not clear what happened to the submersible, why it lost contact, and how close to the Titanic it was when it went missing.įrom left, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, Paul-Henri Nargeolet and Stockton Rush Obtained by CNN It lost contact with the Polar Prince, the support ship that transported the vessel to the site, 1 hour and 45 minutes into its descent, officials said. The submersible began its two-hour descent to the wreck on Sunday morning, June 18. The trip is based out of Newfoundland, with participants first traveling 400 nautical miles to the wreck site, which is about 900 miles (1,450 kilometers) off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The submersible was part of an eight-day journey conducted by OceanGate Expeditions, priced at $250,000 a person. Oxygen levels inside the Titan submersible had been expected to last 96 hours, but after days of scanning above and below the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean, rescuers have found no trace of the vessel.īanging noises heard Tuesday gave authorities “continued hope of survivors,” but by Wednesday, authorities hadn’t been able to locate the source of the sounds, or what had made them. Time is running out to find five people aboard a submersible missing since Sunday on what was supposed to be a roughly 10-hour round trip to see the wreck of the Titanic.
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